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Finally, the time has come to tackle the bathroom reno! It has been 5 years in the making and the decisions don’t come easy. With a space of 18m2 getting the vision I have out of my head and into reality hasn’t been easy, but we think we are almost there! So here is an update on the direction we are heading in.

Below is our inspiration image. This tile combination we have chosen but we have decided that as much as we like the light colour of the floor, we will use the dark colour. A light floor makes me nervous for how dirty the grout will be. So we will use the dark grey on the floor as well as the feature wall in the shower.

We have already ordered all of our taps and showerheads from Australia. We have chosen to go for Matte Black as a point of difference. Here is an example of one of the taps and mixers. They come from a range called Milli Pure and Scala.

We also plan to have this Ethnicraft cabinet with two basins on top.

The bathroom will have a dividing wall which will seperate off a double shower. The bath may or may not be built up on a platform (still can’t decide) and will have a floor mounted, matte black bath spout.

We have already bought this bath and will soon get this toilet…

Here is a very rough sketch of the layout… taking no scale in to consideration. 🙂

Just a reminder of how the bathroom looked before to keep us motivated! These are some photos during the project of demolition which Fredrik and Pelle undertook last week…

Now it looks like this…

We have a long way to go, this week some guys will come to jackhammer up the concrete floor so the plumber can come in and lay new pipes. I don’t even dare to guess how long this project will take…

Watch this space for updates! I will also soon share an update on the landscaping… I have been really lazy putting up the status, but now I need to keep it updated so I can keep the motivation. Looking back at this blog we realise how far we have come.

Finally, it is time to share the complete journey of the bathroom renovation. The truth is that it has been finished for months, but I have been too lazy to put together the video.

Eventually, this will be our guest bathroom but for the time being it is our only bathroom. This is a very small space but shows how making smart decisions can create a feeling of space. The large tiles and colour palette really help. This was also all done for less that 25 000SEK ($4000), which including all tapware, porcelain, floor heating is quite an achievement.

So we did everything, new pipes, floor heating, waterproofing, tiles etc etc etc. One might say it is a slight improvement… It is amazing what you can do when you want to! 🙂

So here is the before and after. Be prepared to be impressed! 🙂

The process from beginning to end… be warned my filming can cause dizziness:

So this weekend I decided to take on my own little project (with some help from Fredrik of course) while Fredrik focused on our bathroom. The small guest toilet downstairs was yellow brown and gross, the ceiling was painted BRIGHT yellow, so my mission was to do a short term fix.

We picked up a small basin and mirror at Beijer and some white paint and here is the outcome… Not bad huh?

Living in the middle of a house that is being completely remodeled has its moments, you buy a house that is around 160m2 and you can only live in around 25m2, but it will all be worth it in the end. Most people are shocked when the see the scope of the project we have taken on, but everyone is always amazed at the progress. Our Real Estate Agent told us that this will be best house in the area if we go through with the plans we have, so it should pay off in the end.

Right now we have an old kitchen (which works REALLY well, plus we put in a dishwasher just because I am a bit precious), old yucky toilet, hideous shower and then a cosy, slightly renovated, room with our sofa, bed, TVs (yep we have two in one room) and then a room where I can have some clothes etc. It sure is cosy, but I think it works, it is clean as it could be (I have emptied about 20 bleach bottles cleaning the shower alone!). The thing I miss the most is having a nice shower, I mean the shower works, the water is hot and clean but it isn’t really relaxing being surrounded with old pipes and very interesting orange walls! In these photos, you can see it for yourself. I could have done the photoshoot on a day when it was all tidy, but why not show it at its worst, on the day when the sheets are in the wash and clothes are everywhere! 🙂

On a more exciting note, we now have all of the pieces for the basin and cabinet in our bathroom. This one was designed by Amanda, made by Fredrik! We couldn’t find anything that matched the vision I had in my head that was going to fit in such a small space so instead we found all of the individual pieces and made our own custom bathroom basin and cabinet. I think it is going to look awesome!

So our first fully renovated room is nearly complete. I have been documenting the whole process so once it is done, I will do a complete blog about it, but it is getting exciting so I wanted to share a sneak peak. This was before, inside the door on the right:

The tiles are now nearly all in place, just some grout, mirror, finishing of the fine details like corners and below are the basin, tap, shower head and toilet we have bought which will soon be installed… wiiiihaaaa!

It has been a busy week… absolutely exhausting. I will add more posts with the other things we have accomplished later but first, the big one… the bathroom!

We have had some help from Fredrik’s Dad and that man is a working machine!! It has been so good to have him here and he really likes to do things right, a bit of a perfectionist, which makes me feel secure that everything is being done to the highest standard. This bathroom is our small bathroom upstairs which we will use until we start working on our big lux bathroom downstairs.

It is a really small room and we are just going to keep it basic. The trick to making a small bathroom feel bigger? Use large tiles and make sure that the grout closely matches the tile colour… the less lines the more open, it will give the illusion of more space. So I have chosen large floor tiles in grey colour, they are 600mm x 300mm and big white wall tiles which are 550mm x 300mm, plus a feature if white mosiac tiles in the shower. We will have basic white furniture. Finished photos to come in some weeks, after Fredrik’s Dad comes back to help finish up! 🙂

The mosaic:

Wall and floor tiles:

All pipes were from 1959 so it was important to find and replace them all. So we did that and then have laid the floor. Next steps are floor heating, walls spackle, tiles, then connection of plumbing and furniture.